House of the Flying Beds by AL BORDE

























Built in the late eighteenth century, at first sight the house gave the impression of not being useful at all. It had only one-floor plan, the brick floor was broken, the eighty square meters were dark and cold, and the wood roof structure was rotten. Only the earth walls seemed able to be refurbish, which at first glance they did not look so bad at all.

The family does not seek for privacy: kitchen, living, dining, and bathroom are for communal use. Almost public because the project is thought to receive visitors and friends all the time. In this house for all, the private space is reduced to the bed of each one of the members of the family.

The final finishes of the completed work are almost the same as they were there in eighteenth century. The refurbish actions are a few and strategic: structural walls are reinforced, rammed earth is treated, doors and windows that were in poor condition are changed, and the floor is polish concrete.

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Maison du Parc in Montreal features stark interiors with “mysterious depth”




















Black and white spaces, including a sculptural staircase and a wine cellar, are found across this brick house overhauled by Montreal firm La Shed Architecture.

Maison du Parc, or Park House, is a three-storey residence in the Canadian city that has received a rear extension and a dramatic interior renovation.

La Shed Architecture gave the house a fresh coat of white paint on its brick front, after the facade was carefully preserved, while the fully glazed addition joins a garden, pool and detached garage at the back.

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Sacromonte Landscape Hotel — designed by local firm MAPA Architects


























Visitors to Uruguay’s Maldonado region can soon stay in a stunning new hotel, which is tucked into 250 acres of gorgeous natural landscape. The Sacromonte Landscape Hotel — designed by local firm MAPA Architects — is a green-roofed mountain retreat that uses mirrored exteriors to strategically blend into its surroundings. The sustainable hotel complex, which is comprised of 13 individual cabins, a winery and a farm-to-table restaurant, was completely prefabricated off site to reduce the project’s footprint.

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OMA draws on the “fundamentals of geometry” for XY180 lights

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This is the first time that OMA has designed a lighting product with a very strong and specific identity,” says Laparelli, a partner at the Rotterdam-based architecture firm led by Rem Koolhaas.

“It is based on a fascination for very essential geometries — probably the fundamentals of geometry — a point, a line and a surface.”

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Norman Foster Foundation Archive: Photography by Jose Manuel Ballester













Photographer Jose Manuel Ballester provides an intimate look inside the Norman Foster Foundation in Madrid for his book Spaces, detailing the architect’s vast collection that ranges from a car owned by Le Corbusier to a model of Apple Park.

Founded in 1999, the Norman Foster Foundation supports the development of the new generations of architects, designers and urbanists via interdisciplinary programmes and projects designed to encourage them to research the future of cities.

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Mount Herzl Memorial by Kimmel Eshkolot Architects

for one that is not typically a huge fan of bricks i find this simply beautiful











kimmel eshkolot architects developed the scheme as an interior project where the ground was excavated to allow daylight to enter. conceived as both a personal and collective structure, the light that enters through the overhead oculus is filtered through the funnel and onto the interior surfaces. several 1:1 mockups of the project were built at ETH zurich. here, the architects, together with ackerstein industries and merkava, developed a construction method that involved concrete bricks screwed together at pre-cut joints.

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Video — Edwardian Department Store Retrofitted by Squire and Partners








UK-based architects squire and partners purchased a dilapidated edwardian department store in brixton, london, and entirely reimagined the space allowing the existing fabric and layers of history to inform the new design.collaborating with craftspeople and furniture makers, the restored building provides an exciting array of spaces for the various design disciplines within the practice.

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